Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Connect to Server

Several of Tiger’s network daemons advertise their services on the local network using Bonjour’s discovery protocol. Terminal’s Connect to Server window (File → Connect to Server) allows you to browse and contact these remote ssh, sftp, telnet, and http servers without needing to provide a hostname or IP address (Figure 3-6).

Figure 3-6. The Connect to Server dialog box

Clicking on an item in the Service column shows all remote Bonjour-enabled daemons of the selected type in the Server column. When you click on a server name, an appropriate connection command appears in the field at the bottom of the window. Above that field are optional settings specific to the chosen service. You can specify an alternate login name, for example, or choose to use SSH 1 instead of the default SSH 2 protocol for a secure shell connection, and the appropriate change is made to the command.

Clicking the HTTP service lists all user web sites found on each of the supported servers. When you select a site, an appropriate ping command appears in the command field (the command is the same for each server, ping hostname, regardless of the chosen site).

Each connection command that you use is permanently added to the command field’s pop-up list, thereby building a list of connection bookmarks for you.

You can manually add other Bonjour-enabled services (as they become available) to the Services ...